Host Margaret Harrington talks with Arnie Gundersen about the ongoing nuclear man made crisis when there is no sound methodology in place for decommissioning Fukushima Daiitchi or Vermont Yankee or any of the nuclear power plants being decommissioned in the US. A nuclear power plant carcass can sit for 60 or 70 years with ratepayers and tax payers paying for them after the plant owners have been subsidized at the public expense

Host Margaret Harrington speaks with Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Energy Education, on the de-commissioning of Vermont Yankee - The State of Vermont and Nuclear Regualtory Commission. More information: www.fairewinds.org or Fairewinds Interview

Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear views the Iran nuclear agreement in the context of the 70 year history started by the Manhattan Project and the US nuclear bombing of Japanese cities

Nuclear Free Future Host Margaret Harrington interviews Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog, of Beyond Nuclear on the importance of the Iran Nuclear Deal and the consequences if it is not passed by US Congress. He discusses nuclear power’s direct relation to nuclear weapons and the tangled history of the Atomic Age.

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